Queer: Daniel Craig is superb in this courageous William Burroughs adaptation

By James Miller, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative and Cultural Industries, Kingston University

In the early 1950s, William Burroughs – drug addict, homosexual and pioneering writer of what would come to be called the Beat generation – found himself in Mexico City. On the run after accidentally shooting his wife, Joan, during a drunken game of William Tell, Burroughs relished the freedom granted by Mexico.

Here, he could indulge his sexual proclivities and drug addiction without the same risks as in the US. Out of this experience came the autobiographical novella Queer…

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